Motivational Quotes

Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

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

Keller, Helen

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Michelangelo

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Keller, Helen

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac