Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Samuel

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Keller, Helen

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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.

26.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

48.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb