Motivational Quotes

Work

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

- Syrus, Publilius

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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ashford, Evelyn

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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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

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Michelangelo

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Kemp, Jack

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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 one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin