Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Burns, Mamie Sypert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Picasso, Pablo

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Ogden Nash

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Keller, Helen

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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 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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Ford, Henry

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi