Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Foster, Jodie

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Jong, Erica

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Riley, Pat

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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 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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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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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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work