Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Work

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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

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

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.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

12.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Foster, Jodie

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

15.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Prince, Ray

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

30.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Michelangelo

39.

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

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

47.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne