Motivational Quotes

Work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Best Quotes about Work

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Bob Ross

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Ogden Nash

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Wilde, Oscar

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jong, Erica

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Prince, Ray

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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