Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakarian, David

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Oprah Winfrey

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michelangelo

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.