Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Halas, George

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

Dodge, B.

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

31.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler