Motivational Quotes

Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

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.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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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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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Allen, James

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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Fox, Jim

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Barack Obama