Motivational Quotes

Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Lowell, James Russell

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Butler, Samuel

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

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

Riley, Pat

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Halas, George

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Peter Drucker

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bible

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Holtz, Lou

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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