Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Slick, Grace

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Angelou, Maya

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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 longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Kemp, Jack

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

David Shore

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

32.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

33.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

35.

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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Michelangelo

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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.