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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Shakarian, David

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Herold, Don

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rohn, Jim

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

35.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?