Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ogden Nash

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Proverb, French

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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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

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Butler, Samuel

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther