Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

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

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.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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