Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

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

10.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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.

Robert Benchley

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

22.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

27.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

30.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Dodge, B.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

45.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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