Motivational Quotes

Work

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

- Sir William Osler

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Austen, Jane

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

James M. Barrie

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Twain, Mark

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Lennon, John

17.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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]

Bible

19.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

25.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

John Ruskin

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Peter Drucker

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

39.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac