Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Foster, Jodie

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

11.

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

Robert Morley

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

Butler, 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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

20.

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

Halas, George

21.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

27.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

28.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

29.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

30.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

34.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

35.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work is a four letter word!

40.

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

Rutte, Martin

41.

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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

43.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

44.

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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

48.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

50.

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