Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Devine, Dan

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

David McCullough

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Weil, Simone

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John