Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

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

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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.

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.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

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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 highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel 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 you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Parkinson's Law

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oakley, Ann

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Riley, Pat

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Garfield, James A.

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Riley, Pat

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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