Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

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

Devine, Dan

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

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

LeMond, Greg

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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

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

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Parkinson's Law

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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 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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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 may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Riley, Pat

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Thomas Carlyle

34.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Richard Bach

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Proverb

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Gillis, Dobie

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt