Motivational Quotes

Work

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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

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

Sand, George

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Herbert, George

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Peter Drucker

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Voltaire

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Prince, Ray

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.