Motivational Quotes

Work

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

- Grotowski, Jerzy

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Peter Drucker

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Grotowski, Jerzy

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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 day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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 reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Parkinson's Law

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata