Motivational Quotes

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

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

Drucker, Peter F.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

James M. Barrie

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

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

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Fox, Jim

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

11.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

18.

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

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

21.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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

25.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

26.

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

27.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

29.

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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

31.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

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.

33.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

38.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

Foster, Jodie

40.

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

43.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

47.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

48.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.