Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Blow, Susan

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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.

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Voltaire

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keller, Helen

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Jong, Erica

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Proverb

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou