Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Sam Ewing

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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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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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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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Proverb

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.