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

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Sam Ewing

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Proverb, French

...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

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Stengel, Casey

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

15.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

17.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

22.

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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

30.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

32.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

33.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Jones, Beverly

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

LeMond, Greg

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

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Bible

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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