Motivational Quotes

Work

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

- Dodge, B.

Best Quotes about Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

12.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

13.

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

Jong, Erica

14.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

16.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

18.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

22.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

23.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

24.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

26.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

29.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

30.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

31.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

33.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

34.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

35.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

36.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

43.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

47.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst