Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Sand, George

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

11.

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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

13.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

14.

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

Ruskin, John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

18.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Twain, Mark

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Kemp, Jack

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Barack Obama

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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.

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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.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul