Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Keller, Helen

15.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

16.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

20.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

21.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

23.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

25.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

27.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

28.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

29.

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

30.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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

33.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

35.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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

38.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

39.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

40.

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.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

42.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

43.

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

Ogden Nash

44.

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

45.

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

46.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

48.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan