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

Peter Drucker

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

Rohn, Jim

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Don Marquis

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

20.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Devine, Dan

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

Proverb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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

34.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

35.

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

Parkinson's Law

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.