Motivational Quotes

Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

- Young, Neil

Best Quotes about Work

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

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]

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

11.

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

Maurois, Andre

13.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

15.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

16.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

19.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

20.

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

21.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

32.

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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Richard Bach

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Austen, Jane

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing