Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Thomas A. Edison

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work is a four letter word!

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Riley, Pat

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Prince, Ray

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

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

43.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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

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

Shakarian, David

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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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Carty, Margaret