Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Lennon, John

11.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

13.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Frost, Robert

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Escher, M. C.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Voltaire

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

29.

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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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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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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

37.

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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

41.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius