Motivational Quotes

Work

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

10.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

11.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

13.

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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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

19.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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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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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

25.

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 eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

32.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Marquis, Don

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

40.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

42.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Keller, Helen