Motivational Quotes

Work

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Rutte, Martin

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Pavlova, Anna

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Michelangelo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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

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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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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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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Proverb, American

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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.

John Ruskin

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Theodore