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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Confucius

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Ruskin, John

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Voltaire

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Riley, Pat

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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