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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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

Prince, Ray

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Romer, Frank

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Weil, Simone

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

27.

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

28.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Bob Ross

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Marquis, Don

41.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

45.

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

Baldwin, James

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha