Motivational Quotes

Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carty, Margaret

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jones, Beverly

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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.

26.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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.

40.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

41.

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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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 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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

48.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe