Motivational Quotes

Work

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Proverb, American

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Riley, Pat

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

Don Marquis

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark