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

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

Anatole France

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Ford, Henry

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.

John Ruskin

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Dodge, B.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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

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

Marquis, Don

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Book, William Frederick

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

46.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas