Motivational Quotes

Work

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Work

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

Anatole France

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Work is a four letter word!

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

Voltaire

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Jones, Beverly

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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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.

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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