Motivational Quotes

Work

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

10.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

18.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

19.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

20.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

21.

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

22.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

23.

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

Keller, Helen

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

29.

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

Elbert Hubbard

30.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

31.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Foster, Jodie

34.

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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

36.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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

42.

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

43.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

44.

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

Parkinson's Law

45.

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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Ford, Henry

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.