Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Picasso, Pablo

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

10.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ruskin, John

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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

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

Howard Newton

28.

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

Dodge, B.

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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.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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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

34.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Don Marquis

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi