Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Dodge, B.

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

23.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

33.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Angelou, Maya