Motivational Quotes

Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

David Shore

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Ruskin, John

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lombardi, Vince

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

10.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

11.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

15.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

20.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

22.

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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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

27.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

28.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

29.

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

Foster, Jodie

30.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

31.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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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

35.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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

39.

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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Blow, Susan

42.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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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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 don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

47.

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

48.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.