Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hepburn, Katharine

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Rutte, Martin

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Proverb

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Gillis, Dobie