Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

10.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Richard Bach

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

18.

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

19.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

28.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Butterworth, Eric

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...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

31.

Work is a four letter word!

32.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

33.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

34.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

38.

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

39.

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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

43.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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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

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary