Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barack Obama

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

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

Riley, Pat

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.

10.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

11.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

12.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Fox, Jim

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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.

28.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

39.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew