Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Jong, Erica

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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

10.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

11.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Lombardi, Vince

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

15.

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.

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

Shakarian, David

17.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

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

Keller, Helen

19.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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 either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Butler, Samuel

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

25.

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

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Twain, Mark

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Oprah Winfrey

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry