Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dodge, B.

10.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

12.

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

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

Proverb, American

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Voltaire

18.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

19.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Work is a four letter word!

22.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

23.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

25.

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

Billings, Josh

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

27.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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

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

Prince, Ray

30.

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

Fox, Jim

31.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Jong, Erica

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

43.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

44.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

46.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

50.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret