Motivational Quotes

Work

How do I work? I grope.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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.

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

Marquis, Don

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Keller, Helen

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John