Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Elbert Hubbard

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

11.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

12.

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

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

15.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

16.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

17.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

19.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Anatole France

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

24.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

25.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

26.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

28.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

29.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

30.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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.

32.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

34.

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

35.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

37.

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

Stengel, Casey

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Howard Newton

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

42.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

43.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

45.

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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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

47.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.