Motivational Quotes

Work

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

- Marx, Karl

Best Quotes about Work

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Kemp, Jack

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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.

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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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Anatole France

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

27.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

28.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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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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Marx, Karl

34.

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

Don Marquis

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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]

Bible

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Rivers, Joan

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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