Motivational Quotes

Work

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elbert Hubbard

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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

11.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

12.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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 your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Halas, George

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

Sand, George

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

22.

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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

24.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

25.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

26.

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

Prince, Ray

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

33.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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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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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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

40.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

43.

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

44.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

45.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

46.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Herold, Don

49.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas