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

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

Voltaire

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

Angelou, Maya

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

12.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

20.

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

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hal Lancaster

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

31.

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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Keller, Helen

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

49.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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