Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, James Weldon

Best Quotes about Work

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

Book, William Frederick

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Foster, Jodie

10.

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

Twain, Mark

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

12.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

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

14.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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.

18.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

20.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

23.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Butler, Samuel

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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

28.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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.

John Ruskin

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

35.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

36.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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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