Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Berra, Yogi

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Michelangelo

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Riley, Pat

11.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

13.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

14.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Syrus, Publilius

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

22.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Book, William Frederick

27.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Twain, Mark

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

David McCullough

45.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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