Motivational Quotes

Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

- Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Rivers, Joan

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Dodge, B.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

14.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Peter Drucker

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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

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

Voltaire

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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 your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

49.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

David McCullough