Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Coolidge, Calvin

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Anatole France

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

Peter Drucker

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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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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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Angelou, Maya

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Voltaire

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Austen, Jane

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Syrus, Publilius

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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