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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Riley, Pat

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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.

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

12.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

14.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

15.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

16.

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

Howard Newton

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

Benchley, Robert

19.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

26.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Keller, Helen

28.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

29.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

30.

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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

33.

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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

35.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou