Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

11.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

17.

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

Oprah Winfrey

18.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

23.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

24.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

25.

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

Baldwin, James

26.

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

Keller, Helen

27.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

35.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

36.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

37.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

38.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

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

Ruskin, John

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Peter Drucker

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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

43.

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 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

45.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

46.

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

47.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

48.

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

49.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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