Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Dodge, B.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Blow, Susan

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

30.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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 shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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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 human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis