Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a four letter word!

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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.

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

Keller, Helen

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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

Herold, Don

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Herbert, George

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peter Drucker

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Ogden Nash

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

John Ruskin

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Bob Ross

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

33.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Maurois, Andre

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Kemp, Jack

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Twain, Mark

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

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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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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