Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

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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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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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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bob Ross

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Picasso, Pablo

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.