Motivational Quotes

Work

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

Proverb, American

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Paterno, Joe

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

10.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

17.

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

18.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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...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

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Bob Ross

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

Peter Drucker

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Herbert, George

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William