Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

11.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

25.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Blow, Susan

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Ogden Nash