Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lombardi, Vince

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Barack Obama

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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 best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Keller, Helen

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

Paterno, Joe

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

35.

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

David McCullough

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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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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

James M. Barrie

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Howard Newton

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Angelou, Maya