Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Riley, Pat

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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

Proverb

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

24.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Book, William Frederick

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Dodge, B.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles