Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Work

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

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Riley, Pat

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Richard Bach

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Devine, Dan

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Riley, Pat

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Keller, Helen

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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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 is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Michelangelo

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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