Motivational Quotes

Work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Best Quotes about Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Michelangelo

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Richard Bach

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

25.

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 history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Riley, Pat

30.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Proverb

40.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

41.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

45.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Picasso, Pablo

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?