Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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.

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

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carty, Margaret

10.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Shakarian, David

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

17.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

18.

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

19.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

20.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Lennon, John

22.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

23.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Keller, Helen

25.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

26.

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

Elbert Hubbard

27.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

28.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

29.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

31.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

34.

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

Garfield, James A.

35.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

36.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

37.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

38.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

39.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

40.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Blow, Susan

42.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

43.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

44.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

45.

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

46.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

47.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

48.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

49.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

50.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!