Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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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

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Butterworth, Eric

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

11.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

12.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

13.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

19.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

20.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

21.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

22.

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

Marquis, Don

23.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

28.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

29.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

30.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

35.

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

40.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

41.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Bob Ross

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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