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

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Holtz, Lou

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Work is a four letter word!

23.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Bob Ross

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan