Motivational Quotes

Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Work

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

Carty, Margaret

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

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

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

David Shore

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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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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Proverb, French

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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