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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Book, William Frederick

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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Reich, Robert B.

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The