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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Gorky, Maxim

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.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

10.

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

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

Bob Ross

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

Riley, Pat

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

19.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Peter Drucker

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

26.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

27.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

28.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

29.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

30.

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

Robert Benchley

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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

Richard Bach

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

41.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

42.

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

Austen, Jane

43.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Hepburn, Katharine

46.

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

47.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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