Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Twain, Mark

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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