Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

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

Twain, Mark

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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.

21.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac