Motivational Quotes

Work

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Baldwin, James

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Lowell, James Russell

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Picasso, Pablo

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Book, William Frederick

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

44.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark