Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Austen, Jane

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Keller, Helen

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Michelangelo

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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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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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

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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

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Sam Ewing

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison