Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a four letter word!

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Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lowell, James Russell

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

10.

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.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

13.

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

Gorky, Maxim

14.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

15.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

16.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

18.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

19.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

20.

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

Weil, Simone

21.

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

Blow, Susan

22.

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

23.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

25.

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

26.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

27.

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

28.

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

Keller, Helen

29.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

31.

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

Oprah Winfrey

32.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

33.

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

Hal Lancaster

34.

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

Sam Ewing

35.

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

Foster, Jodie

36.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

37.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

40.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

43.

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

44.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

45.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

46.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

47.

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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

49.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

50.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat