Motivational Quotes

Work

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Peter Drucker

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

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

21.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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

Barack Obama

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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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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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Robert Morley

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

37.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

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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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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Devine, Dan

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan