Motivational Quotes

Work

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

- Howard Newton

Best Quotes about Work

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

Dodge, B.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Bible

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

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Wilde, Oscar

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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

20.

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

21.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

22.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

25.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

26.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Oakley, Ann

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

30.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

36.

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

Butterworth, Eric

37.

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

Keller, Helen

38.

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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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.

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Austen, Jane

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.