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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Keller, Helen

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thomas A. Edison

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Don Marquis

43.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Gretzky, Wayne