Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Hal Lancaster

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Proverb, American

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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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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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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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Maurois, Andre

29.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

31.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lennon, John

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

David McCullough

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

46.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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.