Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Howard Newton

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

LeMond, Greg

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Reagan, Ronald

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

10.

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

11.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

12.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

13.

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

Prince, Ray

14.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

15.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

18.

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

Blow, Susan

19.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Riley, Pat

21.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Foster, Jodie

23.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

25.

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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

30.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

Elbert Hubbard

33.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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.

36.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

37.

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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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.

40.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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

43.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Keller, Helen

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David