Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Work

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Book, William Frederick

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

David Shore

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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 while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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 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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.