Motivational Quotes

Work

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

- Bette Davis

Best Quotes about Work

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Austen, Jane

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

41.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rivers, Joan

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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