Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

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

Reagan, Ronald

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Peter Drucker

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Huxley, Aldous

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Paterno, Joe

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

12.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

28.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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 believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

34.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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