Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Hal Lancaster

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Ford, Henry

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Devine, Dan

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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Baldwin, James

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Michelangelo

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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 brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey