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

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

Riley, Pat

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lennon, John

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paterno, Joe

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Oakley, Ann

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

34.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Proverb

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

Carty, Margaret

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work is a four letter word!

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder