Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Baldwin, James

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mansfield, Katherine

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

11.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

12.

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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Keller, Helen

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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 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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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 new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Lombardi, Vince

30.

Work is a four letter word!

31.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Prince, Ray

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Frost, Robert

41.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Herbert, George