Motivational Quotes

Work

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Work

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

Austen, Jane

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Richard Bach

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Riley, Pat

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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 one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thomas A. Edison

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin