Motivational Quotes

Work

How do I work? I grope.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Peter Drucker

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

10.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

11.

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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

13.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

19.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

23.

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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

25.

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 and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

30.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

David Shore

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

40.

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

Weil, Simone

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

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

48.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul