Motivational Quotes

Work

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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

31.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ford, Henry

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick