Motivational Quotes

Work

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Austen, Jane

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

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Work is a four letter word!

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Richard Bach

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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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.

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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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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Foster, Jodie

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

34.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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

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

Voltaire

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

50.

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

Rivers, Joan