Motivational Quotes

Work

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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.

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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Keller, Helen

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Carty, Margaret

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

David McCullough

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De