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 woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

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

Barack Obama

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Proverb

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

Riley, Pat

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

28.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

29.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

30.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

33.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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

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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.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

42.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

43.

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

44.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.