Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

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

Don Marquis

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

11.

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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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

18.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

19.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

22.

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

Weil, Simone

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

25.

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

28.

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

Austen, Jane

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

31.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Picasso, Pablo

35.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

37.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

41.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Sam Ewing

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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

Voltaire

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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