Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Voltaire

12.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

13.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

22.

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

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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.

Robert Benchley

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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.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Bible

34.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

35.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Slick, Grace

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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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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

43.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Peter Drucker

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De