Motivational Quotes

Work

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Work

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Elbert Hubbard

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

10.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

James M. Barrie

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Riley, Pat

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

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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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

30.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

31.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Twain, Mark

33.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

34.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Ogden Nash

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

46.

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

47.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Billings, Josh