Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a four letter word!

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ruskin, John

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Riley, Pat

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Don Marquis

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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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Howard Newton

28.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Thomas Carlyle

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine