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Work

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Best Quotes about Work

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

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.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Marquis, Don

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

Robert Benchley

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Rohn, Jim

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ford, Henry

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Escher, M. C.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh