Motivational Quotes

Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Work

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ford, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work is a four letter word!

30.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

32.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

33.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Michelangelo

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.