Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Picasso, Pablo

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Riley, Pat

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jong, Erica

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Paterno, Joe

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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

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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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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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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.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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

32.

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Ford, Henry

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Ogden Nash

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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