Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

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

Don Marquis

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

11.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

13.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

16.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

17.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

18.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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.

20.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

21.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

27.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

32.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

34.

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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

36.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

43.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Ogden Nash

49.

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