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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ruskin, John

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Proverb

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

17.

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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Prince, Ray

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Blow, Susan

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work