Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Devine, Dan

Best Quotes about Work

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Billings, Josh

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

Holtz, Lou

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

11.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Paterno, Joe

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

28.

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

Keller, Helen

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

32.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

David McCullough

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Halas, George

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Riley, Pat

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Parkinson's Law

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick