Motivational Quotes

Work

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Best Quotes about Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Howard Newton

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

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Herold, Don

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

Paterno, Joe

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

21.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

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

Twain, Mark

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

28.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Twain, Mark

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

33.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell