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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Michelangelo

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

11.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

28.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

30.

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

31.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

33.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Keller, Helen

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

37.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Paterno, Joe

39.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Reich, Robert B.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

49.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.