Motivational Quotes

Work

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Barzan, Gerald

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Carty, Margaret

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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 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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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 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