Motivational Quotes

Work

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

- Saintamo, Michael De

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

10.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

16.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

17.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

18.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

24.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

25.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

26.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

28.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

31.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

33.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

34.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

38.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

41.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

42.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

43.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

44.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

45.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

46.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

47.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

48.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

49.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

50.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George