Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Gillis, Dobie

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Jones, Beverly

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

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

David Shore

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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

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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.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Riley, Pat

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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 reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Twain, Mark

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Barack Obama