Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Mitchell, Warren

12.

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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

19.

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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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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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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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

26.

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

Paterno, Joe

27.

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

28.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

33.

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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

35.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

36.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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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

48.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Work is a four letter word!