Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Keller, Helen

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Oakley, Ann

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Book, William Frederick

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

David Shore

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Berra, Yogi

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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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