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 a four letter word!

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Pavlova, Anna

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Riley, Pat

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Butler, Samuel

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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 ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Jong, Erica

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Bob Ross

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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

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Kemp, Jack