Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

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

Hepburn, Katharine

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Butterworth, Eric

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Book, William Frederick

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Peter Drucker

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Twain, Mark

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John