Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Coolidge, Calvin

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Bob Ross

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

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

Allen, James

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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 ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Oakley, Ann

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Austen, Jane

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Prince, Ray

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Benchley, Robert