Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Holtz, Lou

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Twain, Mark

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Twain, Mark

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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