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

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

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

Huxley, Aldous

14.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

18.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

26.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

29.

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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

32.

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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Peter Drucker

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

39.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

43.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert