Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Wilkinson, Bud

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Voltaire

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Richard Bach

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

Riley, Pat

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Riley, Pat

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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