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 the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

James M. Barrie

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Pavlova, Anna

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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 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 six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ogden Nash

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

LeMond, Greg

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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