Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Escher, M. C.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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 must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ruskin, John

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

46.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

LeMond, Greg