Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Work

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Austen, Jane

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Riley, Pat

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

Butler, Samuel

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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

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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

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Escher, M. C.

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

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, French

30.

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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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

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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 contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Parkinson, Joseph