Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Pavlova, Anna

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.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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 way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb

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Work is a four letter word!

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Keller, Helen

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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Marquis, Don

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gillis, Dobie

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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