Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barzan, Gerald

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Voltaire

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Shakarian, David

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oakley, Ann

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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 is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Jong, Erica

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

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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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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

David Shore

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

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

Ford, Henry

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard