Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Burns, Mamie Sypert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Syrus, Publilius

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

18.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Voltaire

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

32.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Twain, Mark

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

40.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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 work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac