Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Oakley, Ann

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

22.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Rohn, Jim

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Bible

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Kemp, Jack

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.