Motivational Quotes

Work

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Butterworth, Eric

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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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.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

David Shore

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

20.

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

David McCullough

21.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Lennon, John

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

Ford, Henry

30.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

31.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Devine, Dan

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

46.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Riley, Pat

48.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan