Motivational Quotes

Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Billings, Josh

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Paterno, Joe

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Don Marquis

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.