Motivational Quotes

Work

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Howard Newton

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Keller, Helen

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Bob Ross

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Don Marquis

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

29.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Devine, Dan

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Peter Drucker

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

Butterworth, Eric