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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Billings, Josh

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Robert Morley

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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 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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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