Motivational Quotes

Work

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henry J. Kaiser

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Work is a four letter word!

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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

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Romer, Frank

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Blow, Susan

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.