Motivational Quotes

Work

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Riley, Pat

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Proverb, American

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Richard Bach

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Twain, Mark

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Ogden Nash

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mitchell, Warren