Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Lowell, James Russell

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Keller, Helen

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

Henry David Thoreau

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Book, William Frederick

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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.

John Ruskin

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

29.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

30.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Work is a four letter word!

33.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Ford, Henry

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

45.

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

Blow, Susan

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

47.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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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.

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