Motivational Quotes

Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

- Morita, Akio

Best Quotes about Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Carty, Margaret

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Blow, Susan

10.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

11.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

12.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

13.

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

14.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

16.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

17.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

19.

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

Halas, George

20.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

21.

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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

23.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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

27.

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

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

30.

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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

43.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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.

47.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel