Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

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

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

James M. Barrie

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Howard Newton

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

Bible

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

Robert Morley

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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

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

Barack Obama

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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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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

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem