Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Brown, Dean Charles R.

Best Quotes about Work

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Lennon, John

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Blow, Susan

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Allen, James

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Crandall, Robert

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Herbert, George

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Don Marquis