Motivational Quotes

Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

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.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Proverb, American

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.