Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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.

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.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

11.

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

Peter Drucker

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Romer, Frank

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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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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

23.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

28.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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 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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

48.

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

49.

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

Parkinson's Law

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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