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

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

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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