Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Berra, Yogi

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

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

LeMond, Greg

10.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

11.

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.

12.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

13.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

14.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

David Shore

21.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

22.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Riley, Pat

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

25.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

26.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Howard Newton

28.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

33.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

34.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

37.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

38.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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

40.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Devine, Dan

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

Oakley, Ann

43.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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We work to become, not to acquire.