Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Work

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Paterno, Joe

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.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

11.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

12.

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

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

16.

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

17.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

18.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Elbert Hubbard

20.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

21.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

23.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

27.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

29.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

30.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

33.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

36.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

37.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

40.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

43.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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