Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Gillis, Dobie

...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

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

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Michelangelo

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Foster, Jodie

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

42.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.