Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Don Marquis

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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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

11.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

12.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

13.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bible

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

22.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

25.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

26.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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

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

Bob Ross

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

Herbert, George

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

40.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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.

42.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

43.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles