Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Keller, Helen

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Baldwin, James

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Lennon, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Gorky, Maxim

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

42.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Prince, Ray

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Howard Newton

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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