Motivational Quotes

Work

No one man is superior to the game.

- Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Best Quotes about Work

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Berra, Yogi

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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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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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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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

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

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

LeMond, Greg

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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

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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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