Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Book, William Frederick

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

24.

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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

26.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

31.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Maurois, Andre

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Marquis, Don

46.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel