Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bhagavad Gita

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Herbert, George

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Michelangelo

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Confucius

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Riley, Pat

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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