Motivational Quotes

Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about 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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Kipling, Rudyard

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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

Oakley, Ann

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Herbert, George

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

43.

Work is a four letter word!

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

45.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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