Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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.

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

Dodge, B.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thomas Carlyle