Motivational Quotes

Work

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

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

Foster, Jodie

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

James M. Barrie

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

Ruskin, John

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Twain, Mark

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

Peter Drucker

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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 --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.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Devine, Dan

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert