Motivational Quotes

Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

LeMond, Greg

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.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Picasso, Pablo

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Gillis, Dobie

18.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Parkinson's Law

25.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

27.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

28.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

30.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

31.

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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

33.

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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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Frost, Robert

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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