Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

13.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

Lennon, John

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Sand, George

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

26.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Hal Lancaster

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

32.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Rutte, Martin

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

40.

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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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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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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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 labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar