Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Marquis, Don

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Ogden Nash

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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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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

21.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Austen, Jane

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

Proverb, American

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Ford, Henry

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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

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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