Motivational Quotes

Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Herbert, George

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Devine, Dan

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Rohn, Jim

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Howard Newton

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De