Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

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

Peter Drucker

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

Keller, Helen

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

David Shore

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Blow, Susan

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

13.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

14.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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

17.

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

Book, William Frederick

18.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

19.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

20.

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

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

22.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

23.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

24.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

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

27.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

28.

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

Lombardi, Vince

29.

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

30.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

35.

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

Parkinson's Law

36.

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

37.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

38.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

40.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

41.

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

42.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

43.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

44.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

47.

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

Ogden Nash

48.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

49.

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

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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