Motivational Quotes

Work

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Rohn, Jim

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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 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.

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham