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

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

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Marquis, Don

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Ogden Nash

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jones, Beverly

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Halas, George

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

29.

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

Don Marquis

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Carty, Margaret

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Henry J. Kaiser

37.

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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.