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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, 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.

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

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

Devine, Dan

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

Romer, Frank

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

Pavlova, Anna

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Blow, Susan

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

Proverb

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Thomas Carlyle

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Herold, Don

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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.