Motivational Quotes

Work

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Riley, Pat

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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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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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Blow, Susan

45.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

David Shore