Motivational Quotes

Work

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gorky, Maxim

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Ford, Henry

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Riley, Pat

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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