Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

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.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Butterworth, Eric

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

15.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

18.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Hal Lancaster

22.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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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

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

29.

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

Stengel, Casey

30.

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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

34.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Rutte, Martin

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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

40.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

44.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

45.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

46.

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

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

48.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert