Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Baldwin, James

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

10.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

11.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

Robert Morley

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Herbert, George

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

17.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

18.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

21.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

22.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

29.

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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps