Motivational Quotes

Work

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Sand, George

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Jones, Beverly

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Riley, Pat

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Twain, Mark

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Rohn, Jim

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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 sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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 necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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.