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Work

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Kipling, Rudyard

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Bob Ross

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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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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Voltaire

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, 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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Angelou, Maya

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark