Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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.

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.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Dodge, B.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Mitchell, Warren

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

Robert Benchley

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Jones, Beverly

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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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.