Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Lombardi, Vince

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

10.

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

Lombardi, Vince

11.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

17.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

18.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Austen, Jane

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Dodge, B.

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

30.

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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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Escher, M. C.

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Prince, Ray

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer