Motivational Quotes

Work

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

- Fox, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Keller, Helen

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

David Shore

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Blow, Susan

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Bible

Work is a four letter word!

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

Butterworth, Eric

10.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

11.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Ashford, Evelyn

14.

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

James M. Barrie

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb, French

41.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

45.

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

Peter Drucker

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Ogden Nash

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow