Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Robert Benchley

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

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

Hal Lancaster

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

29.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

30.

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

Baldwin, James

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

James M. Barrie

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

Halas, George

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

Prince, Ray

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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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