Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Work

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Thomas A. Edison

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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.

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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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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Prince, Ray

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.