Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

James M. Barrie

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

11.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

12.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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 way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

22.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sand, George

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Devine, Dan

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Oakley, Ann

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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Hal Lancaster

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ford, Henry

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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