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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Best Quotes about Work

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

Jones, Beverly

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Devine, Dan

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

Peter Drucker

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark