Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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.

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt