Motivational Quotes

Work

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hepburn, Katharine

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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.

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Halas, George

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Peter Drucker

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth