Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Stengel, Casey

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Voltaire

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

David McCullough

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

Devine, Dan

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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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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Keller, Helen

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Halas, George

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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