Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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 sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Richard Bach

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Devine, Dan

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

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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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

48.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel