Motivational Quotes

Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Berra, Yogi

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Peter Drucker

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

David Shore

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Robert Morley

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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

11.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

15.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

17.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Book, William Frederick

21.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

22.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

James M. Barrie

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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

25.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

26.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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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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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.

30.

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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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

32.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

33.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

35.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

36.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

45.

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

Blow, Susan

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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 secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George