Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

10.

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

11.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

12.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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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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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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

21.

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

Riley, Pat

22.

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

23.

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

Parkinson's Law

24.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

27.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

29.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

30.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

31.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

32.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

36.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

42.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

43.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

44.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough