Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Comaneci, Nadia

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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.

John Ruskin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

40.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Ogden Nash

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

49.

Work is a four letter word!

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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.