Motivational Quotes

Work

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mitchell, Warren

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Halas, George

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Kemp, Jack

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Picasso, Pablo

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Bob Ross

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Butler, Samuel

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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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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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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.