Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Foster, Jodie

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Weil, Simone

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Mitchell, Warren

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Light is the task where many share the toil.