Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Henry J. Kaiser

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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 labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Richard Bach

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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

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

Proverb

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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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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.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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.

John Ruskin

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie