Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Keller, Helen

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Robert Benchley

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bob Ross

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Dodge, B.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Halas, George

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Riley, Pat

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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.