Motivational Quotes

Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Work

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Riley, Pat

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

11.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

24.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Herbert, George

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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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 really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe