Motivational Quotes

Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

- Mcintosh, M. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Gorky, Maxim

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Keller, Helen

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

18.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Kemp, Jack

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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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

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Jones, Beverly

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

32.

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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

36.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

39.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bob Ross

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

Ruskin, John

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William