Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

- Wilfred A. Peterson

Best Quotes about Work

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Richard Bach

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Carty, Margaret

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Jones, Beverly

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

24.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Ford, Henry

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

Don Marquis

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne