Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

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

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

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

David Shore

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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.

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

Voltaire

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.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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