Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Benchley, Robert

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

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

Twain, Mark

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Keller, Helen

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Diller, Phyllis

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Shakarian, David

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Herold, Don

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

22.

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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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