Motivational Quotes

Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

13.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Halas, George

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

James M. Barrie

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Keller, Helen

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Michelangelo

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Proverb

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert