Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Escher, M. 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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Anatole France

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

28.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Paterno, Joe

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Ford, Henry

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Keller, Helen

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

Dodge, B.

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

Ruskin, John

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

43.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Sand, George

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

Marquis, Don