Motivational Quotes

Work

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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

Robert Benchley

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Butler, Samuel

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

10.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

David Shore

12.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

14.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

18.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Don Marquis

20.

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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

22.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

LeMond, Greg

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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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

28.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Mitchell, Warren

31.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

33.

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

Marquis, Don

34.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Blow, Susan

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

40.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

41.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

42.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

47.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine