Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Foster, Jodie

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Keller, Helen

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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

11.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

LeMond, Greg

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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

20.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

21.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

22.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

27.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

28.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

31.

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

Peter Drucker

32.

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

Parkinson's Law

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Rutte, Martin

35.

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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Angelou, Maya

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

41.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

47.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

48.

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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone