Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Foster, Jodie

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Butterworth, Eric

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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