Motivational Quotes

Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Oprah Winfrey

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Voltaire

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Thomas A. Edison

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett