Motivational Quotes

Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Slick, Grace

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

13.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Weil, Simone

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Devine, Dan

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Herold, Don

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

36.

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

Keller, Helen

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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 is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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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.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert