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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

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

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

Slick, Grace

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

10.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Baldwin, James

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

25.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Frost, Robert

27.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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 world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Ford, Henry

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

40.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

43.

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

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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