Motivational Quotes

Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Twain, Mark

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Bible

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor