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

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

Weil, Simone

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Edison, Thomas A.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Sand, George

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Lennon, John

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Keller, Helen

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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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

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb