Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dodge, B.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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.

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

Michelangelo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

12.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

13.

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.

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

15.

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

Ogden Nash

17.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

19.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

20.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

21.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

22.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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

27.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

28.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

30.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

34.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

35.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Confucius

37.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

39.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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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