Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

10.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

13.

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

Holtz, Lou

14.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

15.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

16.

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

Paterno, Joe

17.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

19.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

20.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

21.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

22.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

23.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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.

25.

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

Robert Morley

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

28.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

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.

30.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

31.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

32.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

33.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

38.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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

40.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

41.

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

42.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

43.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

44.

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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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.

John Ruskin

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

Butterworth, Eric

47.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Mitchell, Warren