Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Gretzky, Wayne

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

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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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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

29.

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

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Twain, Mark

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Bible

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Devine, Dan

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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

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Maxine Hong Kingston