Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dodge, B.

Best Quotes about Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Pavlova, Anna

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Peter Drucker

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Prince, Ray

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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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 really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas