Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Twain, Mark

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

11.

Work is a four letter word!

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Dodge, B.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Twain, Mark

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

LeMond, Greg

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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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Ford, Henry

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

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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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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent 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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd