Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kollwitz, KaThe

Best Quotes about Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

David McCullough

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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 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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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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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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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 labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

James M. Barrie

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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.

John Ruskin

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard