Motivational Quotes

Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

- Sinise, Gary

Best Quotes about Work

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

18.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

20.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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.

22.

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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

27.

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

Proverb, American

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

32.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

33.

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

Butterworth, Eric

34.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

42.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew