Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Benchley, Robert

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Slick, Grace

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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

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Herbert, George

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

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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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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.

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Twain, Mark

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Baldwin, James

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page