Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

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

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

10.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

12.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Voltaire

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

20.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

34.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von