Motivational Quotes

Work

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

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

Stengel, Casey

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.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Robert Benchley

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

10.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

11.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

12.

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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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Thomas Carlyle

18.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Parkinson, Joseph

20.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

21.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

24.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

30.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

34.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Paterno, Joe

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Proverb, American

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

44.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly