Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Atkinson, Brooks

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Barzan, Gerald

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Bob Ross

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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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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jones, Beverly

18.

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

19.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

20.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Herbert, George

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Wilde, Oscar

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Thomas Carlyle

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

38.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

David McCullough

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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