Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

David Shore

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

15.

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

Michelangelo

16.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

22.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Sand, George

27.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

28.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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

Jones, Beverly

30.

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

31.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

James M. Barrie

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

Syrus, Publilius

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Howard Newton

45.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.