Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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