Motivational Quotes

Work

No one man is superior to the game.

- Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Best Quotes about Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Kipling, Rudyard

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

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

Dodge, B.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Baldwin, James

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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 a four letter word!

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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

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Voltaire

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer