Motivational Quotes

Work

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Voltaire

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kemp, Jack

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

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

David McCullough

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

Proverb

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom