Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

10.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

12.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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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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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

19.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

25.

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Bob Ross

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Work is a four letter word!

28.

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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

34.

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

35.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

45.

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

Hal Lancaster

46.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

47.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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.