Motivational Quotes

Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

- Hanks, Tom

Best Quotes about Work

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Proverb

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Book, William Frederick

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Foster, Jodie