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

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

10.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

11.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

12.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

13.

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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

17.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

20.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

21.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

22.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

28.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

29.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

30.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

31.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

32.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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