Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Atkinson, Brooks

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Riley, Pat

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ford, Henry

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe