Motivational Quotes

Work

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Barack Obama

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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

11.

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

12.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

13.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

14.

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

Oakley, Ann

15.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

17.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

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

20.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

21.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

22.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

23.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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.

25.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

28.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

29.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

30.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

31.

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

32.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

34.

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

Twain, Mark

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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

37.

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

38.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

42.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

43.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

45.

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

Herold, Don

46.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Baruch, Bernard M.