Motivational Quotes

Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Jong, Erica

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

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Voltaire

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Book, William Frederick

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita