Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Barack Obama

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Jones, Beverly

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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

Voltaire

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

28.

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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

43.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Huxley, Aldous

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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