Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Marquis, Don

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

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Anatole France

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

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Auden, W. H.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Bob Ross

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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