Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Thomas A. Edison

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Book, William Frederick

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Voltaire

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

James M. Barrie

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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.