Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Sam Ewing

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

David Shore

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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Herbert, George

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Maurois, Andre

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Michelangelo

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Lombardi, Vince