Motivational Quotes

Work

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

- William Lyon Phelps

Best Quotes about Work

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Barack Obama

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

23.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

24.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

26.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

34.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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