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

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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.

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Herold, Don

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Richard Bach

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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.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Keller, Helen

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

Halas, George

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Devine, Dan

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Gorky, Maxim