Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Twain, Mark

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

LeMond, Greg

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Don Marquis

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

Twain, Mark

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Riley, Pat

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