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

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ford, Henry

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Parkinson, Joseph

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

10.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

19.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Peter Drucker

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

26.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Work is a four letter word!

34.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Riley, Pat

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Carty, Margaret

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John