Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hepburn, Katharine

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

13.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Robert Morley

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Comaneci, Nadia

42.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

48.

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

49.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac