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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Mitchell, Warren

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

10.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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

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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

14.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

22.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

23.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

24.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

25.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

29.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

30.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

33.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

35.

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

David McCullough

36.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

37.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Holtz, Lou

39.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

40.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

43.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

45.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

46.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

49.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

50.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny