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

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Halas, George

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

James M. Barrie

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Don Marquis

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Proverb

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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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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane