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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Keller, Helen

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

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

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.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Book, William Frederick

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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 way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Ford, Henry

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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