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 highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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

Carty, Margaret

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.