Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Work

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Lennon, John

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

18.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

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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.

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

28.

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

Michelangelo

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

32.

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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kemp, Jack

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

49.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Peter Drucker