Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Proverb, American

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Ruskin, John

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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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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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

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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 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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Book, William Frederick

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