Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

15.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

23.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

24.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

26.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

32.

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

David Shore

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

39.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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.

41.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

42.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian