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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Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Proverb, American

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

David McCullough

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Peter Drucker

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

34.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich