Motivational Quotes

Work

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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

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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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

18.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Voltaire

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Ford, Henry

27.

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

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

32.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

39.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

40.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

49.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Twain, Mark