Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Thomas Carlyle

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.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kipling, Rudyard

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

11.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

12.

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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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Halas, George

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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

28.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Elbert Hubbard

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Paterno, Joe

37.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

40.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Rivers, Joan