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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Jong, Erica

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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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

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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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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butler, Samuel

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

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

Foster, Jodie

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Voltaire

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

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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

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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

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

Lennon, John

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

Carty, Margaret

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Pickens, T. Boone