Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

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

Devine, Dan

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

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

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

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

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

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

David Shore

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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

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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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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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 is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton