Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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.

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

Lombardi, Vince

10.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

19.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

20.

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

Keller, Helen

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

22.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

23.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

24.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

25.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

29.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

30.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

31.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

32.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

34.

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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Peter Drucker

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

Proverb, French

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, 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.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Riley, Pat

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Voltaire

46.

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.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

49.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.