Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Voltaire

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

12.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

13.

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.

14.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

15.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

16.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

20.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

24.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

28.

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

Austen, Jane

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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

30.

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

Ford, Henry

31.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Herold, Don

33.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

35.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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

37.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fox, Jim