Motivational Quotes

Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

- Hanks, Tom

Best Quotes about Work

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Angelou, Maya

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

David McCullough

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Blow, Susan

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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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.

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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

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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.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Proverb, American

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.