Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Bible

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Allen, James

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

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.

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

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Halas, George

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Devine, Dan

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas