Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Anatole France

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Herold, Don

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Richard Bach

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Butler, Samuel

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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