Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

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.

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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Foster, Jodie

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

Thomas A. Edison

12.

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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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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

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

20.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

21.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

24.

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

25.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

31.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

35.

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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

40.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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.

45.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Herbert, George

49.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

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

Rohn, Jim