Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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.

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Devine, Dan

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Gorky, Maxim

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

43.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Weil, Simone

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

Blow, Susan

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Carty, Margaret

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.