Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, American

13.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

15.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

17.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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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

25.

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

Riley, Pat

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

27.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

28.

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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

30.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

31.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

32.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

33.

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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

36.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

41.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

42.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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.