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

...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

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

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, French

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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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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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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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett