Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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]

Bible

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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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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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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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy