Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

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

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

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

Lombardi, Vince

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

11.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

12.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Jones, Beverly

16.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

17.

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

18.

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

Lombardi, Vince

19.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

21.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

22.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

23.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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

25.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Keller, Helen

27.

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

28.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

29.

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

30.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

33.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

34.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

35.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

36.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

37.

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

Book, William Frederick

38.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

39.

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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Butterworth, Eric

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

46.

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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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.

48.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

49.

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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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.