Motivational Quotes

Work

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

- O'Casey, Sean

Best Quotes about Work

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

Work is a four letter word!

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.

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

Frost, Robert

10.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Devine, Dan

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Austen, Jane

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Oakley, Ann

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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.