Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

- Wilfred A. Peterson

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Keller, Helen

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Peter Drucker

11.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

13.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

14.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

17.

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

18.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

20.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

21.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

22.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

24.

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

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

27.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

29.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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.

31.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

32.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

33.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

34.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

35.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

36.

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

37.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

39.

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

Thomas Carlyle

40.

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

41.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

42.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

46.

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

Keller, Helen

49.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.