Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

John Ruskin

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Twain, Mark

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

40.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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The work will stand, no matter what.