Motivational Quotes

Work

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Pavlova, Anna

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Jones, Beverly

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Butler, Samuel

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Blow, Susan

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

Riley, Pat