Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Allen, James

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

10.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

11.

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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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.

13.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

14.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

15.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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.

19.

Work is a four letter word!

20.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

21.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Herold, Don

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

Robert Morley

27.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

28.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

29.

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

Ogden Nash

30.

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

Jong, Erica

31.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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

Barack Obama

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

Butler, Samuel

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

41.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

42.

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

43.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.