Motivational Quotes

Work

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

- Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Best Quotes about Work

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Proverb, French

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Rohn, Jim

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Escher, M. C.

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

48.

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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Paterno, Joe