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

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

Michelangelo

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Pavlova, Anna

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

10.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Voltaire

12.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

13.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

15.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

16.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

20.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

23.

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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

25.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Garfield, James A.

27.

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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

31.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

40.

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

Don Marquis

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.