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

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

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Huxley, Aldous

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Michelangelo

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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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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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Ogden Nash

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia