Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Foster, Jodie

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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 food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.