Motivational Quotes

Work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Best Quotes about Work

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Lennon, John

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

James M. Barrie

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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.

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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