Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

- Johnson, James Weldon

Best Quotes about Work

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

12.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

Jong, Erica

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

19.

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

Carty, Margaret

20.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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

Keller, Helen

35.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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 do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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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

44.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

45.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

46.

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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.