Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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 your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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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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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is the province of cattle.