Motivational Quotes

Work

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Weil, Simone

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Blow, Susan

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

14.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

15.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

18.

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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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

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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.

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Ruskin, John

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Dodge, B.

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

42.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Paterno, Joe

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis