Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Ford, Henry

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Stengel, Casey

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Riley, Pat

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Blow, Susan

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

19.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

David Shore

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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

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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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