Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

...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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Garfield, James A.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Parkinson, Joseph

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

10.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

11.

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

Jong, Erica

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Devine, Dan

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

27.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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

31.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

32.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

37.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

42.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Ruskin, John

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George