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

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

Herold, Don

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

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

Shakarian, David

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Kemp, Jack

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anatole France

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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.

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Marquis, Don

49.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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.