Motivational Quotes

Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Allen, James

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

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Book, William Frederick

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Ogden Nash

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

David Shore

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Escher, M. C.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Don Marquis

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.