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

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Pickens, T. Boone

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

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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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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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

13.

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

Jones, Beverly

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Prince, Ray

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Ogden Nash

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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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

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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.