Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Bob Ross

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

Bhagavad Gita

12.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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.

Robert Benchley

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Blow, Susan

25.

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

Baldwin, James

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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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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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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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Parkinson's Law

35.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Marquis, Don

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

44.

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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius