Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Bhagavad Gita

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

10.

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

Maurois, Andre

11.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

17.

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

Dodge, B.

18.

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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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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.

22.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

27.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

28.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

29.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

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

31.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

32.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Elbert Hubbard

36.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

37.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

40.

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

41.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

42.

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

Rivers, Joan

43.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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

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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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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Jong, Erica