Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Devine, Dan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas Carlyle

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Michelangelo

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Rohn, Jim

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Herold, Don

33.

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

34.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.