Motivational Quotes

Work

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

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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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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Richard Bach

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Halas, George

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Weil, Simone

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas