Motivational Quotes

Work

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Weil, Simone

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

Romer, Frank

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

16.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

18.

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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Paterno, Joe

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

27.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

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

Mitchell, Warren

30.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

34.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

35.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

36.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

37.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

40.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Lombardi, Vince

45.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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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]

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