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

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Parkinson's Law

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Richard Bach

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Butler, Samuel

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Austen, Jane

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

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

David Shore

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sand, George

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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

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne