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

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Reich, Robert B.

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Blow, Susan

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

Richard Bach

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

Parkinson's Law

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Ford, Henry

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

David Shore

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

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Picasso, Pablo

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine