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

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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.

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

Keller, Helen

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Fox, Jim

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

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

David Shore

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Peter Drucker

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Ogden Nash

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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