Motivational Quotes

Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Work

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Barack Obama

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

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

Carty, Margaret

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

36.

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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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

James M. Barrie

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Smith, Dr. Walter