Motivational Quotes

Work

If food were free, why work?

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Work

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bob Ross

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Bible

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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.

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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

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Billings, Josh

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Riley, Pat

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Herbert, George

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy