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

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

Garfield, James A.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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.

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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

David Shore

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

39.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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.

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

Lennon, John

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

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