Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Sand, George

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Paterno, Joe

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Keller, Helen

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Voltaire

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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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

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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

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Book, William Frederick

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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 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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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