Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Keller, Helen

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

12.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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

Ford, Henry

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

20.

Work is a four letter word!

21.

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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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?

Rogers, Will

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

29.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

30.

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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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 the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

33.

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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb