Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Baldwin, James

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Gillis, Dobie

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Prince, Ray

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Ford, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lennon, John

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Pavlova, Anna

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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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