Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Rivers, Joan

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, French

15.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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

Book, William Frederick

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

30.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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