Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Work

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Twain, Mark

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Halas, George

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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

Devine, Dan

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Riley, Pat

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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