Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Prince, Ray

10.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

11.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

12.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

17.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

24.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Keller, Helen

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

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

34.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

35.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

41.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

44.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

45.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

46.

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

Robert Morley

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

Romer, Frank

48.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Proverb, French