Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Picasso, Pablo

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

10.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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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

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

25.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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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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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

35.

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

Riley, Pat

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

44.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.