Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Robert Morley

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.