Motivational Quotes

Work

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Best Quotes about Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Garfield, James A.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

12.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

14.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

15.

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

Foster, Jodie

16.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

19.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

20.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

21.

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

22.

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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

24.

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

David Shore

25.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

27.

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

28.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

30.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

31.

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

Butterworth, Eric

32.

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

Fox, Jim

33.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

34.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

35.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

37.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

40.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

43.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

44.

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

Bible

45.

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.

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

Riley, Pat

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

48.

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

Marquis, Don