Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Robert Benchley

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Herold, Don

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Richard Bach

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Book, William Frederick

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Voltaire

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Keller, Helen

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John