Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

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.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Twain, Mark

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Halas, George

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Ford, Henry

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem