Motivational Quotes

Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Work

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Oprah Winfrey

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lombardi, Vince

15.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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

18.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

19.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

20.

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

Kemp, Jack

21.

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

Twain, Mark

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

25.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Marquis, Don

28.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

29.

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

Escher, M. C.

30.

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

Bible

31.

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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

34.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

35.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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.

37.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

38.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

39.

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

Richard Bach

40.

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

41.

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

42.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

43.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

45.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

50.

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