Motivational Quotes

Work

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Work

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Romer, Frank

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

Paterno, Joe

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

11.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Peter Drucker

13.

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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

15.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

17.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

20.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.

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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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

25.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

26.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

27.

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

Barack Obama

28.

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

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

33.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

36.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

45.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert