Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Work

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

30.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is a four letter word!

33.

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

Weil, Simone

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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