Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

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.

John Ruskin

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

Hill, Napoleon

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Barack Obama

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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.

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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

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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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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

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg