Motivational Quotes

Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Butler, Samuel

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Picasso, Pablo