Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Hal Lancaster

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.

John Ruskin

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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.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Blow, Susan

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Herbert, George

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work is a four letter word!

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.