Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bob Ross

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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

Paterno, Joe

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Romer, Frank

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

10.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

11.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

12.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Berra, Yogi

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

17.

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

James M. Barrie

18.

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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Richard Bach

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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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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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

34.

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

35.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

36.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Prince, Ray

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

42.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote