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?'

Don Marquis

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

David Shore

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

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 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

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

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bob Ross

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Elbert Hubbard

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Ruskin, John

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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.

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

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey