Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Jong, Erica

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

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

Ashford, Evelyn

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

16.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

37.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Devine, Dan

45.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance