Motivational Quotes

Work

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Keller, Helen

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

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Maurois, Andre

12.

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

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

18.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25.

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

34.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

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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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

42.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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