Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Austen, Jane

Work is a four letter word!

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Howard Newton

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

Thomas A. Edison

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Robert Morley

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

Proverb

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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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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

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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