Motivational Quotes

Work

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Twain, Mark

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Riley, Pat

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

Keller, Helen

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett