Motivational Quotes

Work

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

12.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

13.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

16.

Work is a four letter word!

17.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

18.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

19.

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

20.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

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

Robert Benchley

25.

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

26.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

27.

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

Keller, Helen

28.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

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

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

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

Lombardi, Vince

34.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

35.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

36.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

38.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

39.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

40.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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

43.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

44.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

45.

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

Romer, Frank

46.

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

Proverb, American

47.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

48.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

49.

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

50.

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.