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

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Escher, M. C.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

James M. Barrie

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Work is a four letter word!

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Butterworth, Eric

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Keller, Helen

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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 the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Baldwin, James

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Voltaire

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert