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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Book, William Frederick

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Twain, Mark

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

18.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Twain, Mark

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Dodge, B.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

27.

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

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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

30.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

32.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

34.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Proverb