Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

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

Foster, Jodie

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Jong, Erica

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Blow, Susan

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Keller, Helen

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Rohn, Jim

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Peter Drucker

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?