Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Maurois, Andre

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

12.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

23.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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.

25.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

26.

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

Bob Ross

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

34.

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

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is a four letter word!

37.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Keller, Helen

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

44.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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