Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Blow, Susan

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Holtz, Lou

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

17.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

19.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Mitchell, Warren

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

22.

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

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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.

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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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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Voltaire

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

40.

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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Edison, Thomas A.

48.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Gillis, Dobie