Motivational Quotes

Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

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

Devine, Dan

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Barack Obama

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Michelangelo

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, French

19.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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

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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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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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.