Motivational Quotes

Work

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

- Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Best Quotes about Work

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Twain, Mark

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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