Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Work

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

Butler, Samuel

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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.

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.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Twain, Mark

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Lowell, James Russell

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

32.

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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Halas, George

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers