Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Work is a four letter word!

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

David Shore

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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