Motivational Quotes

Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

- Jean De La Fontaine

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Robert Benchley

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Maurois, Andre

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

James M. Barrie

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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 order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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