Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Halas, George

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Lombardi, Vince

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

10.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

12.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

13.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

18.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

23.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

26.

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 suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Holtz, Lou

29.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Diller, Phyllis

35.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

37.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

40.

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

41.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

44.

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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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David