Motivational Quotes

Work

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Ogden Nash

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

Pickens, T. Boone

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

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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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 secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Carty, Margaret

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Herbert, George

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Anatole France

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.