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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thomas Carlyle

10.

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

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Mitchell, Warren

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

15.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Robert Morley

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michelangelo

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

25.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

28.

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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Proverb

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

45.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton