Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Devine, Dan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lowell, James Russell

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Twain, Mark

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ogden Nash

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

Robert Benchley

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Voltaire

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Twain, Mark

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

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

Marquis, Don

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Escher, M. C.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie