Motivational Quotes

Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Keller, Helen

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.

Robert Benchley

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

Halas, George

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

James M. Barrie

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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 do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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

20.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

28.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, French

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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

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.