Motivational Quotes

Work

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

- Hal Lancaster

Best Quotes about Work

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

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Stengel, Casey

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

David Shore

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Wilde, Oscar

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lombardi, Vince

40.

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.

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Richard Bach

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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