Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Parkinson's Law

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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

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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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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Angelou, Maya

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

James M. Barrie

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Henry J. Kaiser