Motivational Quotes

Work

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

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

Michelangelo

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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

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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Thomas A. Edison

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

34.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

35.

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

Voltaire

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Herbert, George

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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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 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