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

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

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

Ogden Nash

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

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

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Richard Bach

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bob Ross

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will