Motivational Quotes

Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Benchley, Robert

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Peter Drucker

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Lombardi, Vince

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bob Ross

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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