Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Oakley, Ann

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Herbert, George

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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 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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Allen, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Keller, Helen

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim