Motivational Quotes

Work

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Halas, George

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Herbert, George

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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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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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, French

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

27.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Richard Bach

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Marquis, Don

32.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Bhagavad Gita