Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

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

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Maurois, Andre

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

12.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

13.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

19.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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