Motivational Quotes

Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is a four letter word!

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bob Ross

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Escher, M. C.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Devine, Dan

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

29.

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 really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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