Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Fox, Jim

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Paterno, Joe

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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

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Bob Ross

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Maurois, Andre

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''