Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

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.

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Allen, James

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.

John Ruskin

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

James M. Barrie

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Thomas Carlyle

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

31.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Robert Morley

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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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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 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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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

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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

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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

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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