Motivational Quotes

Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Riley, Pat

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

10.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

12.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

13.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

14.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

17.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

20.

Work is a four letter word!

21.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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 and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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

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

Prince, Ray

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

39.

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

40.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.