Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

David McCullough

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Prince, Ray

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

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

Escher, M. C.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Don Marquis

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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 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

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine