Motivational Quotes

Work

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

David Shore

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

15.

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

Robert Morley

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Bob Ross

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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 the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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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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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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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