Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

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Best Quotes about Work

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Kemp, Jack

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

James M. Barrie

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

Blow, Susan

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Herbert, George

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel