Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Rohn, Jim

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Barzan, Gerald

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Escher, M. C.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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 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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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