Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Paterno, Joe

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

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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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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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