Motivational Quotes

Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Theodore Roosevelt

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

10.

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

11.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Fox, Jim

20.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

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

Frost, Robert

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

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

25.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

26.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

27.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

28.

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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dodge, B.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

48.

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

49.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Newton, Sir Isaac