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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

John Ruskin

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Proverb

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Marquis, Don

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Don Marquis

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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...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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William