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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Kipling, Rudyard

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

12.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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 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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Blow, Susan

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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 contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem