Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Rutte, Martin

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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.

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

Romer, Frank

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Holtz, Lou