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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Gretzky, Wayne

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Kemp, Jack

19.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Bible

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Lennon, John

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Oakley, Ann

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

43.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Twain, Mark

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Jong, Erica