Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas Carlyle

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Gillis, Dobie

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Holtz, Lou

11.

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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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

14.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

15.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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

19.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ogden Nash

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

32.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Herbert, George

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work is a four letter word!

40.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

43.

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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.