Motivational Quotes

Work

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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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

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

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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Peter Drucker

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Book, William Frederick