Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Syrus, Publilius

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Bob Ross

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Rivers, Joan

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

David McCullough

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ford, Henry

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

Fox, Jim

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick