Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Michelangelo

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Twain, Mark

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

28.

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

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Prince, Ray

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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

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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