Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

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

Confucius

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

Johnson, James Weldon

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

11.

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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Prince, Ray

20.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

David McCullough

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

Parkinson's Law

25.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

34.

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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Keller, Helen

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.