Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Voltaire

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Parkinson, Joseph

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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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 eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Rohn, Jim

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Devine, Dan

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

David McCullough

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