Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Maurois, Andre

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Carty, Margaret

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Butterworth, Eric

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

James M. Barrie

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Ogden Nash

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

47.

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel