Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Keller, Helen

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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

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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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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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Lombardi, Vince

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Blow, Susan

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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