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

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

Peter Drucker

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Richard Bach

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Bible

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Hal Lancaster

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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

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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