Motivational Quotes

Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

David McCullough

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Allen, James

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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.

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Riley, Pat

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Billings, Josh

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Devine, Dan

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

Michelangelo

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

LeMond, Greg

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Benchley, Robert