Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Work

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Bible

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Michelangelo

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Twain, Mark

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Robert Benchley

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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

11.

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

12.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

13.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

14.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

15.

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

16.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

19.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

24.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

27.

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

28.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

31.

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

Lowell, James Russell

32.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

34.

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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

43.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

44.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew