Motivational Quotes

Work

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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.

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

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb, French

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

19.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Riley, Pat

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Lowell, James Russell

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.