Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Dodge, B.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Book, William Frederick

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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

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Riley, Pat

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Don Marquis

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

David Shore

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

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gorky, Maxim