Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Work

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

12.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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

17.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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

19.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

20.

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

21.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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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

24.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Blow, Susan

27.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Michelangelo

29.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

30.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Robert Morley

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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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

34.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Paterno, Joe

37.

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

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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

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.