Motivational Quotes

Work

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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 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 spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Ford, Henry

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work is a four letter word!

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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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