Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.