Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Barack Obama

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

18.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

19.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

22.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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

28.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

31.

Work is a four letter word!

32.

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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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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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

45.

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.

46.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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.