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

Pickens, T. Boone

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Keller, Helen

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Prince, Ray

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey