Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Gorky, Maxim

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Austen, Jane

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

Paterno, Joe

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Confucius

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Riley, Pat

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Twain, Mark

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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