Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Riley, Pat

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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

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...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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Lennon, John

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Richard Bach

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Blow, Susan

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire