Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

10.

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

Michelangelo

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oprah Winfrey

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb

27.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

34.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, James Weldon

44.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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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

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster