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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Diller, Phyllis

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lombardi, Vince

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

11.

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

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

David Shore

15.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

19.

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

20.

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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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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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

28.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

29.

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

Parkinson's Law

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

31.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

35.

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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

39.

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

Proverb

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

46.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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