Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Carty, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Blow, Susan

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Robert Benchley

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

12.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

13.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Riley, Pat

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bob Ross

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Pavlova, Anna

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas