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

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

Rohn, Jim

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Voltaire

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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Sand, George

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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 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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Ruskin, John

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Herbert, George

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Block, A Harvey

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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.

John Ruskin

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thomas Carlyle

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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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

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

Bible