Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Howard Newton

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Book, William Frederick

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

44.

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.

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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul