Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Bible

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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 highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James M. Barrie

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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 I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Herbert, George

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Twain, Mark

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Voltaire

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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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

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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.