Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Devine, Dan

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Slick, Grace

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Holtz, Lou

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Voltaire

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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