Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ogden Nash

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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

Prince, Ray

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.