Motivational Quotes

Work

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

- Mortimer, John

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Marquis, Don

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

11.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

12.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

14.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

21.

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

Jones, Beverly

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

25.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

26.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Riley, Pat

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Herold, Don

41.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

42.

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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Lowell, James Russell

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

49.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.