Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Peter Drucker

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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

11.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

12.

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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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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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

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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

23.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

35.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Robert Morley

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De