Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Hal Lancaster

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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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.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Romer, Frank

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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

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

35.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Robert Benchley

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Prince, Ray

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.