Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Maurois, Andre

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Blow, Susan

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

Parkinson's Law

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Devine, Dan

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Butler, Samuel

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett