Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Ruskin, John

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

24.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

25.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

31.

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

Keller, Helen

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Kipling, Rudyard

40.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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.