Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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.

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.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Dodge, B.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Twain, Mark

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Parkinson's Law

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

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata