Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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 suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Proverb, French

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Angelou, Maya

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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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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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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