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

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

Keller, Helen

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Ford, Henry

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

11.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

20.

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

21.

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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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Lombardi, Vince

25.

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

Thomas A. Edison

26.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

31.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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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.

34.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

David Shore

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

43.

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

James M. Barrie

44.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul