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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

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

Henry J. Kaiser

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Ford, Henry

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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.

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Paterno, Joe

27.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ogden Nash

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion