Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Bob Ross

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Herbert, George

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

40.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Jones, Beverly

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Richard Bach

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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