Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Howard Newton

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Thomas Carlyle

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

11.

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

Prince, Ray

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

Elbert Hubbard

13.

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

Allen, James

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

16.

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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

22.

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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

27.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

28.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

31.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

32.

Work is a four letter word!

33.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

34.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Sam Ewing

40.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Bob Ross

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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

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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