Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Best Quotes about Work

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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.

14.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Twain, Mark

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

James M. Barrie

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

Baldwin, James

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Rohn, Jim

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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 --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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor