Motivational Quotes

Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Work

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

David Shore

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Foster, Jodie

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Ogden Nash

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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 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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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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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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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha