Motivational Quotes

Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

- Young, Neil

Best Quotes about Work

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

Herold, Don

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.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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.

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Butterworth, Eric

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

10.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

11.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Johnson, James Weldon

13.

Work is a four letter word!

14.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

15.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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

22.

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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

David Shore

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

Michelangelo

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Frost, Robert

43.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

50.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.