Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Robert Benchley

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

Book, William Frederick

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

David Shore

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

James M. Barrie

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Austen, Jane

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Parkinson's Law

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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