121 Work Quotes
May these work quotes motivate and inspire you to be your best.
Enjoying your work truly brings more pleasure to your life.
You may also be encouraged by these poems about work.
Quotes
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"When you are able to stay focused on your work without any
expectations for, or concern with, the fruit of our labor, there
will be no limit to the heights you can reach."
Russell Simmons, Super Rich
Poems of Encouragement
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A garden can be a place to work with weeds attacking in the lurk
Catherine Pulsifer, A Garden Can Be
Garden Poems
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The purpose of balancing work and play is to find a middle ground that makes you happy mentally, financially, spiritually, physically, emotionally.
Ginel Love, 25 Tips To Balance Everyday Work and Play
Inspirational Poems
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Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.
Proverbs 20:4 (NLT)
Christian Poems
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Be Strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do, and loads to lift.
Maltbie D. Babcock, Be Strong
Poems About Strength
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I think of Life as God's workshop, where we each have our work to do.
Alex Tuer, God's Workshop
Poems About God
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
Fire and Ice Poem
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My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
Mark Pincus
Respect Quotes
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
Effort Quotes
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...work yourself and set others to work. Nothing makes moroseness and heavy-heartedness in a house so fast as idleness.
Stopford A. Brooke, Sunlight In Your Home
Poems About Home
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Your effort and success will accord with the amount of faith and hope you put into your work.
George F. Butler, Look At The Bright Side
Motivational Poems
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I would be useful on earth, serving some purpose or cause. Doing some labor of worth, giving no thought to applause.
Edgar A. Guest, Purpose
Poems About Purpose
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Determination drives me to success' door, this is what I have been working for.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Road Ahead
Poems On Determination
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Work hard and play hard. But don't confuse the two.
Author Unknown
Hard Work Quotes
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How much easier our work would be if we put forth as much effort trying to improve the quality of it as most of us do trying to find excuses for not properly attending to it.
George W. Ballinger
Funny Quotes About Life
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As a father you must have the mindset that being a dad is your most important job.
Mark Merrill
Dad Poems
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Can't is the father of feeble endeavor, the parent of terror and half-hearted work; it weakens the efforts of artisans clever, and makes of the toiler an indolent shirk.
Edgar A. Guest, Can't
Positive Poems
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Do not despair because good things happen to those who are willing to work for it.
Kate Summers
Short Quotes
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But as I look back o'er the past and view the things I've done, the very work I planned to do has only been begun.
Unknown, The Closing Year
New Year Poems
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They say a woman's work is never done - she always seems to be on the run. She possesses many skills and many jobs she does fill.
Kate Summers, A Woman's Work
Poems For Women
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The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.
Amit Kalantri
Celebrate Quotes
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For work well done and it's reward, throughout this happy land is heard Thanksgiving.
Cobb, Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Poems
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When the evening shadows gather and the long day's work is done; when we reach that unknown country, out beyond the setting sun
Unknown, We Shall Know Each Other There
Heaven Poems
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Let your work be always true, steady, patient, hour by hour.
Priscilla Leonard, The Lesson Of Content
Poems About Contentment
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People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Alfie Kohn
Community Quotes
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Still let me wish thee ...the happiness that comes of work well done,
M. E. F., A Birthday Greeting
Birthday Poems
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"Material things are not important, and while our jobs provide the means,
the important things in life are the people who touched our lives."
Catherine Pulsifer
Life Quotes
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"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
Margaret Fuller
Poems about Life
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Our holidays we look forward to...working all year, this vacation is due - we can't wait for work to go away.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Vacation Holiday
Holiday Poems
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You don't begrudge the labor when the roses start to bloom
Edgar A. Guest, The Price Of Joy
Poem How Does Your Garden Grow
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Dare to do right! dare to be true! You have a work that no other can do, do it so bravely, so kindly, so well
George Lansing Taylor, Dare To Do Right
Dare To Be
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97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% that never gave up.
Daymond John
Quotes About Quitting
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So find out what you want to be and do. Take off your coat and make dust in the world. The busier you are, the less harm you are apt to get into...and the better satisfied the whole world will be with you.
Bob Burdette, My Son Remember
Son Poems
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Success at last he had attained by toiling day by day
Edgar A. Guest, He Earned His Way
Poems About Winning
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...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Work Ethic Quotes
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What can I wish that day may bring to me...A work to do which has real value,
without which the world would feel the poorer.
Excelsior Banner, A Morning Wish
A New Day Poem
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So hope for tomorrow, trudge on with a song, there's work for your hands to do,
Charles S. Poling
Hope For Tomorrow
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... do not look disheartened over the work you have to do...but just endeavor day by day another point to gain, and soon the mountain that you feared will prove to be a plain.
Unknown, Little by Little
Poems About Perseverance
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Crisis management is not merely developing a plan and executing it during a crisis. Instead, it is appropriately viewed as an ongoing process.
Timothy Coombs, Ongoing Crisis Communication
Planning Quotes
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...what is worthy of your effort shows that you think you are worthy. In other words, how you think about yourself, how much value you assign to yourself will clearly be demonstrated in how you perform in your job.
Byron Pulsifer
Poems About Effort
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Habitual multitasking might save you some time, but it might also compromise the quality of work.
Philip Vang
Time Quotes
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Beautiful hands are those that do work that is earnest, brave, and true
Ellen P. Allerton, Those That Do
Poems About Hands
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Water is always working, reorganizing the land.
Tim Palmer
Poems About Water
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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Famous Poems
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks
Phillips Brooks, Pray For
Devotion About Prayer
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
George Bernard Shaw
Life Is Good Poems
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When your day's work is over....And life is one beautiful rhyme, no trouble annoying each one is enjoying the good old summer-time.
Unknown, In The Good Old Summer-Time
Summer Poems
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Make a little fence of trust around to-day; fill the space with loving work
Mrs. M. F. Butts, Trust
Trust In God
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Believe in yourself and then go in and work with your heart and soul.
Unknown, Believe
Poems For Teenagers
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Do not fear to do or dare; if you want a field of labor you can find it anywhere.
G. M. Grannis, Your Mission
Poems About New Beginnings
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Discover your gifts, be true to you - don't work a job that makes you blue.
Catherine Pulsifer, Don't Compare Yourself
Follow Your Own Path Poems
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Men grow old more quickly from having nothing to do than from overwork.
A running machine will keep bright for years. An idle one will soon rust out.
Author Unknown
Smile Poem
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This lesson you will have to learn, that all you get is what you earn, and though your tasks may be unpleasant, the key to the future is in the present!
Charles A. Grupp, Three Lazy Kittens
Poems For Kids
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What do you wish? To be known as a shirk, known as a good man who's willing to work
Edgar A. Guest
You Decide
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It is not the work, but the worry that wrinkles the smooth, fair face - that blends gray hair with the dusky and robs the form of its grace
Unknown, Not Work, But Worry
Poems About Worry
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Work intelligently, work with energy and force to achieve success and if
you persevere success surely will crown your efforts.
Author Unknown
Short Inspirational Quotes
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"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves."
Brian Tracy
Mistake Quotes
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Work is the solid foundation of success. Work plus thought to make productive, plus study, including
intelligent reading, is to feed the mind. Those are the things: Work, think and act.
Author Unknown
Success Poem
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So do your work and play your game - play fair and hard all day; and let the townsmen wag their tongues, the gossips have their say,
David V. Bush
The Successful Man
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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
John Gerzema
Kindness Poems
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There is work you can do, and how well it is done is for you and you only to say...for the prize-winning man sticks to one golden plan,
and works just a little bit better!
David V. Bush
Do It Better
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Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you....a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley, Every Morning
High School Graduation
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Too many self-impose the cross of daily working for a boss, forgetting that in failing him it is their own stars that they dim.
Edgar A. Guest
Who Do You Work For
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Let's not forget that the worker, the implementer must also form part of the success story for without the dedicated worker, the people who carry out the plans, nothing would ever be achieved.
Byron Pulsifer
The Thinker
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You and your work, love the work you do, if not take action and do what you love to do.
Catherine Pulsifer
New Year Motto
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No matter whatever kind of business you plan to pursue, nothing can be a substitute to hard work and good time management. Edward Eddington
Good Quotes
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When there is lots of work to be done friends sometimes are down to one, the true friend is always willing
Catherine Pulsifer, True Friends Are Dear
True Friend Poem
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"I have never known a man who died from overwork,
but many who died from doubt."
Charles Horace Mayo
Doubt Quotes
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"...life is not a rehearsal, so get your work done, and then go have some fun!"
Adrian Coppola
Balance Quotes
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If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.
Tim Ferriss
Good Mornng Quotes
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Some find work where some find rest, and so the weary world goes on
Catherine Pulsifer
Difficult Situation
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This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; of all who live, I am the one by whom this work can best be done in the right way.
Henry VanDyke, The Three Best Things
If All The Skies
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Since there is a lot of work to be done in the world and somebody must do it... we will jump in and start something and not wait for the Other Fellow to do it.
Arthur Franklin Fuller, Resolutions
Do All You Can
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No, tasks are not worth "fooling with" 'tis not what tasks were made for.
You must not fool with them at all' that's not what you are paid for.
Strickland Gillilan , Not Worth Fooling With
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"Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work
to be done that will not be done unless you do it."
Charles L. Allen
Inspirational Quotes
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"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade."
Henry Ward Beecher
Worry Quotes
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"Today I can whine because I have to go to work or I can shout for joy
because I have a job to do."
Author Unknown, Sculptor's Attitude
Attitude Quotes
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"You are never given a wish without also being given
the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach
Decision Quotes
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"So when you find yourself feeling stressed about work,
the kids, bills, house work, and the hundreds of things on your to-do list,
start identifying what you are thankful for and start saying your thank you's."
Jon Gordon
Happy Thanksgiving Quotes
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"I'm spending more time with my family and friends and less time working."
Erma Bombeck
Short Family Quotes
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It isn't the job we intend to do...that puts us right on the balance sheet; it's the work we have really done.
Unknown, Get It Done
Get It Done
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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard
Motivational Quotes
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"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
H. Jackson Browne
Quotes to Live By
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A good mentor will decode the unwritten rules, demystify the way things work, and offer you tips on navigating the organization.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor
Mentor Quotes
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To work smart means to maximize the value of your work by selecting a few activities and applying intense targeted effort.
Morten T. Hansen, Great at Work
Thought Provoking Quotes
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
Robert Frost
Trouble Quotes
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is
the belief that one's work is terribly important."
Bertrand Russell
Believe Quotes
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"Many people quit looking for work when they find a job."
Author Unknown
Defeat Quotes
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"We do what we love to do, so it is not like work."
Catherine Pulsifer, Simplicity - a changing lifestyle?
Lifestyle Quotes
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"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
William J. Bennett
Graduation Sayings
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The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain.
Whate'er we want of any worth we've got to work to gain.
Edgar A. Guest, Results and Roses
Poetry Quotes
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"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those
who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to
be in the first group; there was much less competition."
Gandhi
Thoughtful Quotes
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"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
Marian Wright Edelman
Money Quotes
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"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation
which he should do even if he did not need the money."
William Lyon Phelps
Wealth Quotes
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Remember this great world has need of you, has need of all the work that you can do
Wilhelmina Stitch, Hold Up Your Head
Be The Best You Can Be
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"If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life."
Confucius
Enjoy Life Quotes
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"Another technique I use when my job seems overwhelming is to
keep it all in perspective by saying to myself:
'My job is important but it only forms part of my life - it is not my entire life.'
Catherine Pulsifer, Your Work and Your Stress
Overwhelmed Quotes
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"I don't believe that companies are necessarily prisons,
but sometimes we make prisons of them by the way we choose to work there."
Stephen C. Lundin, Ph D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen, Fish
Choices Quotes
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"People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do."
Elbert Hubbard
Humorous Quotes
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"Always know who your client or customer is - no matter what your job is."
Richard A. Moran, Never Confuse a Memo with Reality
Graduation Poems
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If you want clients to trust you, they need to know you will always be
truthful when working with them even if it means sending them
to the competitors.
Anne Warfield
Just For Today
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"Complement, don't criticize your boss."
Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit
Optimistic Quotes
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"Spend less time making a living and more time making a life."
Dianne Nahirny, Stop Working . . . Start Living
Poem About Life Lessons
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"Work is part of my identity but it is not my essence."
Julia Cameron, Transitions
Independence Quotes
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There are far too many people who believe that if only they had the luck to get ahead, to live in a different neighborhood, or to attend an institution of advanced education. This so-called "luck" to these types of people is something that is given to them without having to work.
Byron Pulsifer
Quotes About Luck
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The opposite of multi-tasking is single-tasking, or focused work .
To produce your highest quality work, focus is required.
Janeen Latini, Love to Lead. Lead to Love
Ordinary or Extraordinary
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When you go to work, work. When you're at work, work. When there is work to be done, work!
Matt Bishop, The 8 Pillars of Career and Business Success
Opportunity Quotes
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The difference between living to work and working to live may
be just what you need to reduce some of these mid-life health issues
to a manageable level.
Byron Pulsifer
Health Quotes
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No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways
to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Relax Quotes
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Early retirement doesn't necessarily mean never working again; rather, it means being able to freely choose the amount, if any, and type of work to pursue.
Dianne Nahirny, Stop Working . . . Start Living
Retirement Quotes
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A boss is usually happy to listen to ideas that help the workforce to achieve more.
Dane Taylor, Time Management
Leadership Quotes
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Collaborate. The only way to come up with a productive solution is for both parties to work together.
Lawrence Polsky
Teamwork Quotes
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Make your life to shine in doing good deeds,
You'll find plenty of work, plenty that needs
David J. Cable
Make Hay While The Sun Shines
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We can sometimes let our work take over our life and that just leads to burn out as without some downtime to recharge your batteries life will catch up to you.
Poems
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the
wall of our own homes.
Harold B. Lee
Home Quotes
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Don't bring work or your laptop with you on vacation.
Yasmeen Abdur-Rahman
Vacation Quotes
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"Often, people stay in jobs that they despise rather than taking a
risk by changing their work to an area that they love.
Catherine Pulsifer
Positive Quotes About Change
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The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more
important than the thing for which we wait!
Erwin W. Lutzer, When You've Been Wronged
Patience Quotes
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May you always have work for your hands to do.
Irish Blessing
Birthday Blessings
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Emotional health at work can be affected by a host of factors including the stress you create yourself by choosing to let your negative emotions, anger, or frustration rule the day.
Catherine Pulsifer
Emotional Health At Work
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job
and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey
Positive Thoughts
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