Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Henry David Thoreau

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Oakley, Ann

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

31.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Keller, Helen

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor