Motivational Quotes

Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Best Quotes about Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Atkinson, Brooks

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Howard Newton

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Frost, Robert

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Twain, Mark

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

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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