Motivational Quotes

Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

David Shore

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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.

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

Jones, Beverly

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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

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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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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Riley, Pat

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

48.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

49.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.