Motivational Quotes

Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

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 question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

Work is a four letter word!

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

David McCullough

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Voltaire

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

Kemp, Jack

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

21.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

22.

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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

34.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Allen, James

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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.

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Confucius

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.