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

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.

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

Anatole France

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Keller, Helen

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

11.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

12.

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

Twain, Mark

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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

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

Kemp, Jack

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

18.

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

Oprah Winfrey

19.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

20.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

24.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

32.

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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

35.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Herold, Don

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

38.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

John Ruskin

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Parkinson's Law

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Gretzky, Wayne