Motivational Quotes

Work

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jong, Erica

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

Angelou, Maya

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Riley, Pat

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

Allen, James

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Twain, Mark

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Richard Bach

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder