Motivational Quotes

Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Work

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Butterworth, Eric

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

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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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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kemp, Jack

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Devine, Dan

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Pavlova, Anna

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