Motivational Quotes

Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Berra, Yogi

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.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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 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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Fox, Jim

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

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Twain, Mark

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Frost, Robert

39.

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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

46.

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

47.

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

Marquis, Don

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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