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

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

Thomas Carlyle

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Riley, Pat

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Howard Newton

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Sand, George

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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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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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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