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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Parkinson's Law

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Herbert, George

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Oakley, Ann

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Don Marquis

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.