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 isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Michelangelo

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Thomas A. Edison

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Paterno, Joe

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis