Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

11.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

12.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

18.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

20.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

21.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

24.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

25.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

28.

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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

...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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

32.

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

33.

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

Herbert, George

34.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jong, Erica

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Howard Newton

40.

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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

42.

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.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

44.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

45.

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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.