Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Twain, Mark

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Keller, Helen

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peter Drucker

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

Halas, George

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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

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

David Shore

12.

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

Howard Newton

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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 done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Blow, Susan

31.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Foster, Jodie

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Thomas A. Edison