Motivational Quotes

Work

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

- Rollwagen, John

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barzan, Gerald

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Carty, Margaret

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Ashford, Evelyn

10.

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

Maurois, Andre

11.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

13.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

15.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

17.

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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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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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.

20.

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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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.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is a four letter word!

24.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

28.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

29.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

33.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

38.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

40.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

42.

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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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

44.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

45.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

46.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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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