Motivational Quotes

Work

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

- Atkinson, Brooks

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hill, Napoleon

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Keller, Helen

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

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Halas, George

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Dodge, B.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Jones, Beverly

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Syrus, Publilius

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work is a four letter word!

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.