Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Baldwin, James

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard