Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Bhagavad Gita

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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

Bible

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

Dodge, B.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

14.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

15.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Blow, Susan

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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.

25.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

34.

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

Bob Ross

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Escher, M. C.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

42.

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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

44.

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

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Herold, Don