Motivational Quotes

Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

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.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sand, George

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Diller, Phyllis

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

James M. Barrie

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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

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James