Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Paterno, Joe

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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

11.

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

David McCullough

12.

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

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

14.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

15.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

16.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

17.

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

18.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

19.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Ford, Henry

24.

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

25.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

29.

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

Robert Benchley

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

33.

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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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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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

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

40.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

43.

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

44.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

45.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.