Motivational Quotes

Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Proverb, American

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

Ford, Henry

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

10.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

11.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

12.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

13.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

19.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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.

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

43.

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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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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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

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel