Motivational Quotes

Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Oprah Winfrey

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ogden Nash

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Don Marquis

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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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

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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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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

Robert Benchley

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thatcher, Margaret