Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Paterno, Joe

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Ruskin, 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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

LeMond, Greg

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

David Shore

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward