Motivational Quotes

Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

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

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jong, Erica

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

Diller, Phyllis

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Herbert, George

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Austen, Jane

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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 job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Rutte, Martin

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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