Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Robert Morley

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

Riley, Pat

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Romer, Frank

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

Riley, Pat

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Kemp, Jack

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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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 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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Keller, Helen

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

49.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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.