Motivational Quotes

Work

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Twain, Mark

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Lowell, James Russell

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Paterno, Joe

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

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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

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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.

John Ruskin