Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Keller, Helen

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

David McCullough

10.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

19.

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

20.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

22.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

23.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

25.

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

Marquis, Don

26.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

Rutte, Martin

28.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

29.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

30.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Proverb, French

38.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Blow, Susan

40.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

43.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret