Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

- Barrett, Colleen C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Howard Newton

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Weil, Simone

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Riley, Pat

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

David Shore

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Michelangelo

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Butler, Samuel

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Peter Drucker

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.