Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

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

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Don Marquis

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Mitchell, Warren

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

43.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ogden Nash

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Foster, Jodie

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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