Motivational Quotes

Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Work

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

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

Don Marquis

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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 has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Keller, Helen

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Parkinson's Law

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Thomas Carlyle

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Keller, Helen

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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