Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kollwitz, KaThe

Best Quotes about Work

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

10.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

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

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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 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 is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

17.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

21.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Richard Bach

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

25.

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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

30.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

34.

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

Benchley, Robert

35.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

42.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work is a four letter word!

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden