Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rohn, Jim

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ford, Henry

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Work is a four letter word!

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

42.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

43.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean