Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

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.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Blow, Susan

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

20.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is a four letter word!

27.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shakarian, David

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow