Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Bob Ross

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

Austen, Jane

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

29.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

30.

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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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Proverb, French

37.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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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

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

42.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

43.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Michelangelo

45.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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

Huxley, Aldous