Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Rivers, Joan

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Oakley, Ann

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Don Marquis

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks