Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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.

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

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

Escher, M. C.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bhagavad Gita

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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