Motivational Quotes

Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Work

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Blow, Susan

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

10.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

11.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

13.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

14.

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

Kemp, Jack

15.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Mitchell, Warren

20.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dodge, B.

25.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

26.

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

Foster, Jodie

27.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

29.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

30.

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.

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

33.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Ford, Henry

36.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

40.

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

41.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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

Lennon, John

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.