Motivational Quotes

Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mitchell, Warren

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

James M. Barrie

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Richard Bach

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.