Motivational Quotes

Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Michelangelo

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.

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bob Ross

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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

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

18.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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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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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Riley, Pat

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

41.

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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem