Motivational Quotes

Work

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

- Shakarian, David

Best Quotes about Work

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Riley, Pat

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Peter Drucker

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

Ogden Nash

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Halas, George

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Stengel, Casey

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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 fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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

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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Prince, Ray

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

32.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

33.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

36.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Blow, Susan

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

44.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

47.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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