Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Paterno, Joe

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Angelou, Maya

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Anatole France

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Ford, Henry

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell