Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dodge, B.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Lowell, James Russell

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

15.

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

Maurois, Andre

16.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

17.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

20.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

21.

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

Don Marquis

22.

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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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

25.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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

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

Confucius

28.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

29.

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

Jones, Beverly

30.

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

31.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

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

33.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

34.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

46.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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

49.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William