Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Riley, Pat

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Proverb

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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

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ruskin, John

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Weil, Simone

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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