Motivational Quotes

Work

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Baldwin, James

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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 greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

David Shore

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas A. Edison

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Riley, Pat

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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 never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Jones, Beverly

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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.