Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Prince, Ray

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herbert, George

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.