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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Riley, Pat

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Riley, Pat

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Bob Ross

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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 who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish