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

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

Robert Benchley

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

16.

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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

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

Twain, Mark

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dodge, B.

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Maurois, Andre

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Don Marquis

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem