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.

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Book, William Frederick

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Lowell, James Russell

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Keller, Helen

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Butler, Samuel

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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.