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

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Riley, Pat

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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.

11.

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

12.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

David Shore

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Book, William Frederick

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

25.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

27.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Howard Newton

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

Angelou, Maya

30.

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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

33.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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

43.

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

Escher, M. C.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.