Motivational Quotes

Work

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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

Devine, Dan

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

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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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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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Don Marquis

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

David McCullough

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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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

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Austen, Jane

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.