Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas A. Edison

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Elbert Hubbard

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

David McCullough

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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

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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