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

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

10.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

Rivers, Joan

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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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 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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Halas, George

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

35.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Ogden Nash

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark