Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

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

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Ashford, Evelyn

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Proverb, American

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Barack Obama

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Keller, Helen

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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