Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robert Benchley

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

11.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

15.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

16.

Work is a four letter word!

17.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

18.

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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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

21.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Ford, Henry

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Keller, Helen

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.