Motivational Quotes

Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Butler, Samuel

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Lombardi, Vince

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

41.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Keller, Helen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Stengel, Casey