Motivational Quotes

Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Ogden Nash

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Keller, Helen

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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 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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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

26.

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

Rutte, Martin

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Robert Morley

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Kemp, Jack

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison