Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

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

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Angelou, Maya

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

10.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

11.

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

James M. Barrie

12.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

13.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

14.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Howard Newton

16.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

17.

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

Oprah Winfrey

19.

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

Austen, Jane

20.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

22.

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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

25.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

28.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

34.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

35.

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

Bible

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert