Motivational Quotes

Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Thomas A. Edison

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, French

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

Book, William Frederick

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, American

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Weil, Simone

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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 nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work alone is noble.