Motivational Quotes

Work

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

- Rollwagen, John

Best Quotes about Work

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

Paterno, Joe

Work is a four letter word!

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Herbert, George

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

Gorky, Maxim

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carty, Margaret

13.

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.

14.

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

Stengel, Casey

15.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

18.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

19.

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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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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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

25.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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

27.

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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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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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

30.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

33.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

34.

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

35.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

40.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

45.

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.

46.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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.

49.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

50.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann