Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a four letter word!

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Thomas Carlyle

11.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

12.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keller, Helen

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

20.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keller, Helen

22.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

24.

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

25.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

26.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

27.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

28.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

29.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

30.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

31.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

32.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

33.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

35.

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

36.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

38.

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 contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

40.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

41.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

45.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

46.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

47.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

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

Hal Lancaster

49.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

50.

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