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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Don Marquis

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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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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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 human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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

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

Herbert, George

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Paterno, Joe

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.