Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Bhagavad Gita

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Proverb, American

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Parkinson's Law

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean