Motivational Quotes

Work

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

- Lisa Kudrow

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Peter Drucker

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Henry David Thoreau

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

18.

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

Maurois, Andre

19.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

21.

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

Escher, M. C.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Michelangelo

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

Keller, Helen

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Riley, Pat

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

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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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

34.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

35.

Lisa Kudrow

36.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

37.

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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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

39.

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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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.