Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

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

Elbert Hubbard

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

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.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Prince, Ray

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Blow, Susan

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Allen, James

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, American

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

Herbert, George

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

David Shore

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Voltaire

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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