Motivational Quotes

Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

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

Slick, Grace

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Paterno, Joe

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Work is a four letter word!

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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 become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Don Marquis

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

Book, William Frederick

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Riley, Pat

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Riley, Pat

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter