Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Barack Obama

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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...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

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Riley, Pat

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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