Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

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

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Blow, Susan

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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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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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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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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?