Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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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.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Herbert, George

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Confucius

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Voltaire

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

Bob Ross

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

David Shore

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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