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

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

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Maurois, Andre

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

20.

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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Syrus, Publilius

37.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.