Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Howard Newton

Best Quotes about Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Ogden Nash

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

James M. Barrie

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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.

29.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Jones, Beverly

35.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Angelou, Maya

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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