Motivational Quotes

Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Frost, Robert

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

10.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

11.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

12.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

13.

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

15.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Ford, Henry

17.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

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

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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

20.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

22.

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

23.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

24.

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

25.

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

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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

27.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

28.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

29.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

31.

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

Halas, George

32.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

33.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

37.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

38.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

David McCullough

40.

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.

41.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, French

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Henry J. Kaiser

49.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will