Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Work is a four letter word!

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

10.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

11.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

15.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

17.

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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

20.

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

Peter Drucker

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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

24.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

25.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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.

John Ruskin

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

29.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

31.

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

Barack Obama

32.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

33.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

34.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

35.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

36.

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

Ogden Nash

38.

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

40.

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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

43.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

44.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

45.

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

46.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

47.

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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Reagan, Ronald