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

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

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Halas, George

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

10.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

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

Thomas A. Edison

12.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

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

16.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

17.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

18.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

19.

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

Robert Morley

21.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Escher, M. C.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

26.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

27.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Voltaire

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Ford, Henry