Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

James M. Barrie

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Benchley, Robert

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Blow, Susan

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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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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Howard Newton

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Prince, Ray

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

Robert Benchley

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France