Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

David McCullough

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Ruskin, John

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ogden Nash

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Paterno, Joe

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John