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

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

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Angelou, Maya

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Keller, Helen

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

Ruskin, John

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Maurois, Andre

17.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

28.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Robert Benchley

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Oprah Winfrey

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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