Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Dodge, B.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bob Ross

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

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

Blow, Susan

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Robert Morley

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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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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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