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

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Riley, Pat

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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

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

Paterno, Joe

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Parkinson's Law

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

25.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

31.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

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

Riley, Pat

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

John Ruskin

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald