Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

10.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Hal Lancaster

12.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

13.

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

Prince, Ray

14.

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

15.

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

Richard Bach

16.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

17.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

19.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

20.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

21.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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

23.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

25.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

26.

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

27.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

29.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

30.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

32.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

35.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

41.

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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

43.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

44.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

45.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

48.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

49.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

50.

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

Carty, Margaret