Motivational Quotes

Work

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Mitchell, Warren

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Coolidge, Calvin

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

10.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

11.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

12.

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

13.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

14.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

17.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

19.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

20.

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

21.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

23.

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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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

25.

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

26.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

27.

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

28.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

29.

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

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

38.

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

Barzan, Gerald

39.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

40.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

41.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

43.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

45.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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