Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Richard Bach

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Sam Ewing

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Bob Ross

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Angelou, Maya

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

David McCullough

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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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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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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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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew