Motivational Quotes

Work

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

- Wilkinson, Bud

Best Quotes about Work

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Marquis, Don

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Bible

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

10.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Twain, Mark

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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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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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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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

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Halas, George

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

44.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

47.

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

Parkinson's Law

48.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Thomas Carlyle

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