Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Work

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michelangelo

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

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

11.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

12.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Riley, Pat

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.