Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

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

Proverb, American

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Book, William Frederick

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Herbert, George

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Angelou, Maya

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

David McCullough

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

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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