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

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

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

Ogden Nash

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Robert Morley

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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 new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Foster, Jodie

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.