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

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

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

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

Keller, Helen

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Voltaire

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

27.

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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Don Marquis

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Rohn, Jim

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

44.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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