Motivational Quotes

Work

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

- Slick, Grace

Best Quotes about Work

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

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

10.

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

Dodge, B.

11.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

13.

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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

18.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

19.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

21.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Mitchell, Warren

27.

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

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

30.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

31.

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

Michelangelo

32.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

33.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

34.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

35.

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

Devine, Dan

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

40.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

46.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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.