Motivational Quotes

Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Best Quotes about Work

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Blow, Susan

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

David McCullough

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Carty, Margaret

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Slick, Grace

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone