Motivational Quotes

Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

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

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

10.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

12.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Keller, Helen

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

Bhagavad Gita

18.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

21.

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

Peter Drucker

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

26.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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

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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.

38.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

44.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Coolidge, Calvin

48.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Jones, Beverly