Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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.

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.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Mitchell, Warren

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Proverb, French

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Proverb

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work is a four letter word!

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles