Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Twain, Mark

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Lennon, John

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

17.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

19.

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

Paterno, Joe

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

27.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

31.

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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

39.

Charette, Fred

40.

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

Ford, Henry

41.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

44.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

49.

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

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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