Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

10.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

14.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

17.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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

Twain, Mark

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

20.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

25.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

26.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

27.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

28.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

29.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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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

36.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

38.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

39.

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

David Shore

40.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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

43.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

44.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

45.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

46.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham