Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Romer, Frank

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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

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Lowell, James Russell

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Twain, Mark

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning