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

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.

Work is a four letter word!

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Riley, Pat

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Proverb, American

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Holtz, Lou

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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