Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Syrus, Publilius

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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

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

Richard Bach

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Voltaire

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

Dodge, B.

24.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Billings, Josh