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

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

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

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

Barack Obama

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Hill, Napoleon

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

11.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Peter Drucker

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

17.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Work is a four letter word!

22.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

26.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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.

28.

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

Jones, Beverly

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

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

Keller, Helen

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

34.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Austen, Jane

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

42.

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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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