Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen 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.

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

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

11.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

LeMond, Greg

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Halas, George

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

Keller, Helen

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman