Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Riley, Pat

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

11.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Stengel, Casey

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

18.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

20.

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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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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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Voltaire

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Keller, Helen

31.

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

Richard Bach

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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...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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Voltaire

40.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

49.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett