Motivational Quotes

Work

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Richard Bach

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Weil, Simone

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

18.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Maurois, Andre

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

35.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Rohn, Jim

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Twain, Mark

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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