Motivational Quotes

Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

David Shore

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Bob Ross

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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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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Bible

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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