Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Prince, Ray

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Austen, Jane

10.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

11.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

12.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

13.

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

Blow, Susan

14.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

15.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

16.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

17.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

18.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.

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

Kemp, Jack

20.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

24.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

30.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

31.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

33.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

34.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

35.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

36.

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

37.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John