Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Book, William Frederick

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Thomas A. Edison

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon