Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

David Shore

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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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 daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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 history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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.