Motivational Quotes

Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Stengel, Casey

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

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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 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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Halas, George

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

19.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Angelou, Maya

30.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

38.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Proverb, French

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Devine, Dan

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcgoorty, Danny