Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Holtz, Lou

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Slick, Grace

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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

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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.

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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

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald