Motivational Quotes

Work

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

- Slick, Grace

Best Quotes about Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Thomas Carlyle

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Lennon, John

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Bible

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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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

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Richard Bach

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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