Motivational Quotes

Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

- Morita, Akio

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Lennon, John

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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

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Paterno, Joe

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

David Shore

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

27.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Proverb, French

29.

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

Confucius

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

31.

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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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.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

34.

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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

43.

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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

45.

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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Dorothy L. Sayers