Motivational Quotes

Work

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Work

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

10.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Richard Bach

15.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

16.

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

Dodge, B.

17.

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

Foster, Jodie

18.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

20.

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

Ogden Nash

21.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

24.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

35.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

43.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

44.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

45.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin