Motivational Quotes

Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Twain, Mark

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Sand, George

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

21.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

David Shore

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Sam Ewing

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs