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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Devine, Dan

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

Proverb, American

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Herbert, George

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Lennon, John

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