Motivational Quotes

Work

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

- Lisa Kudrow

Best Quotes about Work

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Lombardi, Vince

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

14.

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

Book, William Frederick

15.

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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Herold, Don

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

24.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Butler, Samuel

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

30.

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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

39.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

40.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Voltaire

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.