Motivational Quotes

Work

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Work

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Slick, Grace

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Marquis, Don

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Ford, Henry

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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 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

28.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

29.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Jong, Erica

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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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