Motivational Quotes

Work

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Herbert, George

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Maurois, Andre

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Ashford, Evelyn

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

10.

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

Pavlova, Anna

11.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

12.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

20.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

25.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

26.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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

29.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

32.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

33.

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

Carty, Margaret

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

39.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

40.

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

Reagan, Ronald

42.

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

Keller, Helen

43.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

45.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Anatole France

49.

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

Robert Morley

50.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese