Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

13.

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

David Shore

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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

17.

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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

20.

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

21.

Work is a four letter word!

22.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Halas, George

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Paterno, Joe

32.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Voltaire

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

43.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Billings, Josh

46.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ruskin, John