Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Twain, Mark

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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 brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Rivers, Joan

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Herbert, George

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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

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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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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