Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Keller, Helen

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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.

John Ruskin

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Herbert, George

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Foster, Jodie

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica