Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Voltaire

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Parkinson's Law

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

30.

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

31.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Benchley, Robert

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

34.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

35.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

41.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The