Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Carty, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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

Barack Obama

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Ogden Nash

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Book, William Frederick

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Ruskin, John

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is a four letter word!

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Devine, Dan

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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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

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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