Motivational Quotes

Work

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

- Kollwitz, KaThe

Best Quotes about Work

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Confucius

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

David Shore

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Sam Ewing

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Twain, Mark