Motivational Quotes

Work

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Rivers, Joan

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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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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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 while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

39.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning