Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

LeMond, Greg

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

10.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

11.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

12.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Elbert Hubbard

14.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

18.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

19.

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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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

29.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

30.

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

Allen, James

31.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

32.

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

Frost, Robert

33.

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

34.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

39.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

44.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

45.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

50.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.