Motivational Quotes

Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

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

Lombardi, Vince

11.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ford, Henry

22.

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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