Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Paterno, Joe

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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 is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

31.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

35.

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Reagan, Ronald

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Benchley, Robert