Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Bible

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

10.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

11.

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

Butterworth, Eric

12.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

14.

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

Halas, George

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

20.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

21.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

22.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

23.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

30.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

32.

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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

36.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

37.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Riley, Pat

41.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

42.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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