Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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.

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Devine, Dan

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Ogden Nash

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Keller, Helen

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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 suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Butterworth, Eric

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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