Motivational Quotes

Work

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

- Morris, William

Best Quotes about Work

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Paterno, Joe

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo